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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Above: Drone Racing League Founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski is having a magic moment. (photo by Jordan Hollender) Drone Racing League (DRL) founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski (MBA 2008) wants to be clear: He didn’t invent the sport that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
those opportunities.” An excellent tennis player, Burke volunteered to teach the sport as a teenager in Milwaukee’s inner city. “It taught me a lot,” she said. “You see kids with a passion for life and talents and you know if they could... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Kosztyo have made that concept a reality, with BuyerWeb currently boasting some five hundred participating merchants (mostly small or specialty businesses) from fourteen different categories of products and services, including items such as cigars, coins, wine, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
combine my passion for soccer with my career. This led me to apply to HBS MBA program, with the goal of transitioning into the soccer industry. At HBS, I immediately began networking—reaching out on LinkedIn, attending sports conferences,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
sophomores, 100 juniors, and 80 seniors. A significant percentage of Spingarn students receive reduced-price lunches. Many of those same students eat their lunch while sporting iPods, iPhones, and watches bigger than Texas belt buckles,... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
Immersion Elizabeth: I think the most important thing I learned from my FGI was that anything is possible. My group was able to work for a team of entrepreneurs that had started a sports gear company in Buenos Aires. It was energizing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications to his realistic paintings of all the major game fish in their natural habitats. Rules Are Not Enough: The Art of Good Governance in the Real World by Rupert Merson (PMD... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
in spite of your faults. The ease of meeting people outside section after the first few months of class. Clubs, lunches, parties, FIELD, discussion groups, intramural sports — all of these activities are cross-section. The majority of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
year, it welcomed a user with loads of data—the city itself. Partner communities can alert Waze users to planned traffic incidents (concerts, sporting events) and road closures, reducing congestion; users get a better drive. The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Vadim, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—Over the past two years, conference realignment has taken a front seat in the college sports landscape. Economic incentives were too attractive to overlook for some universities. College football... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2010
- News
He's Back to Baseball Cards
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of the Washington Post and sports... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
“Real estate chatter is the most popular sport in Manhattan,” says Kirk Henckels (MBA 1976), who has made a career buying and selling some of New York City’s most luxurious apartments. In his new book with Annie Walker, Life at the Top,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- June 2025
- Case
Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied his... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Governance; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Leading Change; Valuation; Investment Activism; Climate Change; Management Succession; Financial Management; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; United States; Australia; Canada
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)." Harvard Business School Case 225-082, June 2025.
- August 1994 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Astra Sports, Inc. (B)
By: John A. Quelch
Astra executives meet to discuss their options with a Venezuelan company that, for seven years, manufactured and marketed athletic shoes under the Astra name without authorization from Astra. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Crime and Corruption; Brands and Branding; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Venezuela
Quelch, John A. "Astra Sports, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 595-008, August 1994. (Revised December 1996.)
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
I am what you may consider an atypical candidate at HBS; I am an art history major in pursuit of an MBA, dedicated to a career path in the arts. My fascination with art stems from an experience I had in high school. I attended a weekly seminar at the Metropolitan... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
introverts). Read More>>> Meet the MBA Class of 2020 Each student that attends HBS has a different story. They are from big cities, small farming villages, and everything in between. Some students have a passion for mathematics and others for View Details
- Fast Answer
Turnarounds and Transformation
Subject, exclude Sports and Politics. Add a date range to identify companies early to mid-turnaround (i.e., to exclude older and most recent results). How to locate contacts at known companies View Details